Ileana D’Cruz who appears in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films, made her Bollywood debut with Anurag Basu’s critically and commercially successful Barfi, for which she received critical appreciation and the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut.

Her most recent Bollywood release was Happy Ending where she played the lead along Saif Ali Khan, Govinda and Kalki Koechlin. However, the film met with negative reviews and was a box office flop.